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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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3    
4  Version 8.0 02 Jul-08  Version 7.9 xx-xxx-09
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6    
7    1.  When building with support for bzlib/zlib (pcregrep) and/or readline
8        (pcretest), all targets were linked against these libraries. This included
9        libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp, even though they do not use these
10        libraries. This caused unwanted dependencies to be created. This problem
11        has been fixed, and now only pcregrep is linked with bzlib/zlib and only
12        pcretest is linked with readline.
13    
14    2.  The "typedef int BOOL" in pcre_internal.h that was included inside the
15        "#ifndef FALSE" condition by an earlier change (probably 7.8/18) has been
16        moved outside it again, because FALSE and TRUE are already defined in AIX,
17        but BOOL is not.
18    
19    3.  The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and
20        PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RETURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints.
21    
22    4.  The pcregrep documentation said spaces were inserted as well as colons (or
23        hyphens) following file names and line numbers when outputting matching
24        lines. This is not true; no spaces are inserted. I have also clarified the
25        wording for the --colour (or --color) option.
26    
27    5.  In pcregrep, when --colour was used with -o, the list of matching strings
28        was not coloured; this is different to GNU grep, so I have changed it to be
29        the same.
30    
31    6.  When --colo(u)r was used in pcregrep, only the first matching substring in
32        each matching line was coloured. Now it goes on to look for further matches
33        of any of the test patterns, which is the same behaviour as GNU grep.
34    
35    7.  A pattern that could match an empty string could cause pcregrep to loop; it
36        doesn't make sense to accept an empty string match in pcregrep, so I have
37        locked it out (using PCRE's PCRE_NOTEMPTY option). By experiment, this
38        seems to be how GNU grep behaves.
39    
40    8.  The pattern (?(?=.*b)b|^) was incorrectly compiled as "match must be at
41        start or after a newline", because the conditional assertion was not being
42        correctly handled. The rule now is that both the assertion and what follows
43        in the first alternative must satisfy the test.
44    
45    9.  If auto-callout was enabled in a pattern with a conditional group whose
46        condition was an assertion, PCRE could crash during matching, both with
47        pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec().
48    
49    10. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option was not working when pcre_dfa_exec() was
50        used for matching.
51    
52    11. Unicode property support in character classes was not working for
53        characters (bytes) greater than 127 when not in UTF-8 mode.
54    
55    12. Added the -M command line option to pcretest.
56    
57    14. Added the non-standard REG_NOTEMPTY option to the POSIX interface.
58    
59    15. Added the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE match-time option.
60    
61    16. Added comments and documentation about mis-use of no_arg in the C++
62        wrapper.
63    
64    17. Implemented support for UTF-8 encoding in EBCDIC environments, a patch
65        from Martin Jerabek that uses macro names for all relevant character and
66        string constants.
67    
68    18. Added to pcre_internal.h two configuration checks: (a) If both EBCDIC and
69        SUPPORT_UTF8 are set, give an error; (b) If SUPPORT_UCP is set without
70        SUPPORT_UTF8, define SUPPORT_UTF8. The "configure" script handles both of
71        these, but not everybody uses configure.
72    
73    19. A conditional group that had only one branch was not being correctly
74        recognized as an item that could match an empty string. This meant that an
75        enclosing group might also not be so recognized, causing infinite looping
76        (and probably a segfault) for patterns such as ^"((?(?=[a])[^"])|b)*"$
77        with the subject "ab", where knowledge that the repeated group can match
78        nothing is needed in order to break the loop.
79    
80    20. If a pattern that was compiled with callouts was matched using pcre_dfa_
81        exec(), but without supplying a callout function, matching went wrong.
82    
83    
84    Version 7.8 05-Sep-08
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86    
87  1.  Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad  1.  Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad
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111    
112  7.  Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two  7.  Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two
113      pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.      pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
114    
115  8.  Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to  8.  Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to
116      test 2 if it fails.      test 2 if it fails.
117    
118  9.  Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,  9.  Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,
119      and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to      and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to
120      allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.      allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
121    
122  10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from  10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from
123      the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.      the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
124    
125    11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
126        could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
127        some environments:
128    
129          printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
130    
131        This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
132    
133    12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
134        after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
135        pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
136        no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
137        pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
138    
139    13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
140        exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
141    
142    14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
143        the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
144        first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
145    
146    15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
147        /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
148    
149    16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
150    
151    17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
152        pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
153    
154    18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
155    
156    19. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as
157        supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because
158        there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is
159        replaced by pcre_ucd.c.
160    
161    
162  Version 7.7 07-May-08  Version 7.7 07-May-08
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